|
Get up to 65% off some of our top titles. Shop now |
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
by Stefan Collini
|
by Stefan Collini
|
by Stefan Collini
|
The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicolson |
by Alberto Manguel
|
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links(What is this?) |
Product Description
Review
An insightful account of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain. (Ian Irvine, New Statesman )
He is acute, analytical and often killingly funny. (Bevis Hillier, Daily Telegraph )
This collection shows the considerable talents and erudition of one of Britain's finest essayists and writers. Collini is skilled at portraiture... His style is capacious, fair minded and unbuttoned, alert to the quirks of personality and the conflicts of creative restlessness. (Ronan McDonald, THES )
Too many histories of literary and intellectual culture are stuck in the elegiac mode. Stefan Collini avoids this trap in this bracing collection. He is one of the finest essayists we have (Jonathan Derbyshire, Prospect )
One of the finest essayists we have. (Jonathan Derbyshire Prospect )
Collini's linguistic unpredictability is so refreshing... He fleshes out his thesis with sparkling accounts of distinct epochs (Eve Patten, Irish Times )
fascinating and superbly-written (Will Podmore )
He is acute, analytical and often killingly funny. (Bevis Hillier, Daily Telegraph )
This collection shows the considerable talents and erudition of one of Britain's finest essayists and writers. Collini is skilled at portraiture... His style is capacious, fair minded and unbuttoned, alert to the quirks of personality and the conflicts of creative restlessness. (Ronan McDonald, THES )
Too many histories of literary and intellectual culture are stuck in the elegiac mode. Stefan Collini avoids this trap in this bracing collection. He is one of the finest essayists we have (Jonathan Derbyshire, Prospect )
One of the finest essayists we have. (Jonathan Derbyshire Prospect )
Collini's linguistic unpredictability is so refreshing... He fleshes out his thesis with sparkling accounts of distinct epochs (Eve Patten, Irish Times )
fascinating and superbly-written (Will Podmore )
Product Description
In this series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Collini focuses on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership. Among the critics discussed are Cyril Connolly, V.S. Pritchett, Aldous Huxley, Rebecca West, Edmund Wilson, and George Orwell, while the historians include A.L. Rowse, Arthur Bryant, E.H. Carr, and E.P. Thompson. There are also essays on wider themes such as the fate of 'general' periodicals, the history of reading, the role of criticism, changing conceptions of 'culture', the limitations of biography, and the functions of universities. Explicitly addressed to 'the non-specialist reader', these essays make some of the fruits of detailed scholarly research in various fields available to a wider audience in a succinct and elegant manner. Stefan Collini has been acclaimed as one of the most brilliant essayists of our time, and this collection shows him at his subtle, perceptive, and trenchant best. The book will appeal to (and delight) readers interested in literature, history, and contemporary cultural debate.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
As both Eliot and Edmund Wilson are Americans, I think Enemies of Promise is the best English book of criticism since the war, and more than Eliot or Wilson you really write about writing in the only way which is interesting to anyone except academics, as a real occupation like banking or fucking, with all its attendant boredom, excitement, and terror. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
As both Eliot and Edmund Wilson are Americans, I think Enemies of Promise is the best English book of criticism since the war, and more than Eliot or Wilson you really write about writing in the only way which is interesting to anyone except academics, as a real occupation like banking or fucking, with all its attendant boredom, excitement, and terror. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
87% buy the item featured on this page: Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics £23.58 |
 |
6% buy Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain £15.70 |
 |
4% buy English Pasts : Essays in History And Culture£21.85 |
 |
2% buy The Death of the Critic£6.07 |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
 |
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. |
